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Pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. People sit on chairs, and this one is awfully cool. In Ye Olden Times, they called it a throne and there's usually a King in it. Or a princess, for some reason. Or sometimes, some dude named Orcus. The Corrupt Corporate Executive and Mob Boss love their swivelling chairs behind the desk of their penthouse office, with much the same effect. Other fiendish uses for the Cool Chair Couch of Villainy (muah-ha-ha!) include practicing your Slouch of Villainy, and naturally, the Chair Reveal. Examples of Cool Chair include:

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  • Pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. People sit on chairs, and this one is awfully cool. In Ye Olden Times, they called it a throne and there's usually a King in it. Or a princess, for some reason. Or sometimes, some dude named Orcus. The Corrupt Corporate Executive and Mob Boss love their swivelling chairs behind the desk of their penthouse office, with much the same effect. Other fiendish uses for the Cool Chair Couch of Villainy (muah-ha-ha!) include practicing your Slouch of Villainy, and naturally, the Chair Reveal. Examples of Cool Chair include:
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  • Pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. People sit on chairs, and this one is awfully cool. In Ye Olden Times, they called it a throne and there's usually a King in it. Or a princess, for some reason. Or sometimes, some dude named Orcus. The Corrupt Corporate Executive and Mob Boss love their swivelling chairs behind the desk of their penthouse office, with much the same effect. More modern versions can include buttons on the armrest, which can help The Captain take a memo if any Bridge Bunnies aren't around. Alternatively, The Big Bad will have one of these (in black leather, natch) and any built-in controls will probably have to do with the tidy disposal of underlings. Other fiendish uses for the Cool Chair Couch of Villainy (muah-ha-ha!) include practicing your Slouch of Villainy, and naturally, the Chair Reveal. Villains and roguish heroes of the Middle Eastern persuasion will often be surrounded by scantily-clad women fanning him and feeding him grapes. Cool Chairs will always be thematically appropriate. You will never find Lord Azazel the Befouler brooding atop his dread throne of plush cushions, and conversely you'll will never see Captain Jake McHero reclining on a seat made of iron spikes and human tibias. In The Sixties, the Cool Chair was Aarnio Eero's Ball Chair. People who have their own Cool Chairs (understandably) tend to be attached to them; should some irreverent interloper put his seat in your seat, feel free to declare: This Is My Chair. A subtrope of this is the Hovering Cool Chair, often found in video games and more fantastic works of fiction. Hovering Cool Chairs are also sometimes weaponized - machine guns, rockets, and lasers pop out of it to attack the villain's enemies- especially when also functioning as a Super Wheelchair. This may serve as a way to introduce a Boss Battle with a mastermind-type villain without resorting to Authority Equals Asskicking. Swivel Chair Antics is another Sub-Trope. Also, on occasion, the chair may serve as an escape pod for the villain to make his getaway. Examples of Cool Chair include:
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